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| 2005-11-12 |
| When 2nd Lt. Jim Cathey's body arrived at the Reno Airport, Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac. During the arrival of another Marine's casket last year at Denver International Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as one of the most powerful in the process: "See the people in the windows? They'll sit right there in the plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what's going through their minds, knowing that they're on the plane that brought him home," he said. "They're going to remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. They're going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should." God Bless the Marines (and all the other brave men and women in harms way, overseas and in the homeland). Read this. All of it. NOW. If you have a soul, it will rip in places, if you have eyes, they will have tears. |
| Posted by:Oldspook |
| #9 awesome - I'm crying like a baby. Beck is our finest |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-11-12 19:54 |
| #8 Dear G_d, Dear, dear G_d |
| Posted by: Jim 2005-11-12 19:53 |
| #7 I went to bookmark the home page of the Rocky Mountain News and found the article was on the front page, and included a lot of background and slide shows - which I haven't seen yet.... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-11-12 19:05 |
| #6 Well researched. Well observed. Well wriiten. No slant. No anti-anything. Just the straight story of the families and the Corps. Kudos to the writers for having the guts to report a hard story the hard way, and the class do right by all those in the story. Everyone, please write to the editors of the Rocky Mountain New paper and congratulate them on a job well done by their reporters and editors on this story. We bitch about the press when they get it wrong, lets let them know whenthey get it right. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2005-11-12 19:04 |
| #5 And please, don't insult cockroaches like that. I'm sure they have some redeaming qualities. Yes, cockroaches are incredibly resistant to very high doses of nuclear radiation. Thankfully, and probably much to their impending surprise, terrorists are not. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-11-12 17:09 |
| #4 My son graduated from Marine OCS and will be commissioned after graduation next summer. I am proud that he will be a Marine. God Bless them all. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2005-11-12 17:00 |
| #3 Salute indeed. God bless them. And please, don't insult cockroaches like that. I'm sure they have some redeaming qualities. Terrorists have none. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-11-12 15:30 |
| #2 Jeebus, Spook! Well, I guess you did give a tear alert. Thanks for sharing. My sleeve is wet, but I might save the whole article. The most important part - not where I started sobbing and my wife came in - is the following, I think: "One morning after burying a lance corporal, all I wanted to do was come home and play with my children. Just take them into a corner with all their things and play with them," he said. "But you know, all I was thinking about while I was playing with them were all those guys out there in harm's way, making all that possible." God bless them, every one. I'm so glad my son is a Marine! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-11-12 15:29 |
| #1 Terrorists are cock roaches. "I held his tiny hand and watched as the monitors told the story: His heart was in trouble owing to the brain trauma. I watched as he fought for his life, fighting to breathe. But I knew he was dying and there was nothing I could do. This innocent Muslim child, who had been observing Ramadan the way a child does, was now dying despite the fact that my blood was moving though his veins, despite the fact that I pleaded with G-d to do what I thought was right, to keep him alive." They even kill Children |
| Posted by: RG 2005-11-12 15:18 |